Curtain and drapery support.



a W I 110.786. 168. I PATEN'I'ED APR. 4, 1905.

J. M. SPENCER.

CURTAINAND DR APERY SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 8, 1904.

Witnesses Inventor Httornegs UNITED STATES Patented April 4, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. SPENCER, OF SMITH, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CLYDE SHAVER, OF SMITH, MICHIGAN.

CURTAIN AND DRAPERY SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 786,468, dated April 4, 1905. Application filed October 8, 1904. Serial No. 227,706-

To It whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES M. SPENCER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Smith, in the county of St. Clair and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Curtain and Drapery Support, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to combined shaderoller and drapery hangers, and has for its object toimprove the construction and increase the utility of devices of this character.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood that the invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as various changes in the shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may be resorted to without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device applied. Fig. 2 is an' enlarged detail of the socket end of the bracket, illustrating the manner of securing the drapery sustaining rod therein.

The improved device comprises two brackets for attachment to the window and adapted to support the shade-roller and drapery-pole and formed substantially alike except that they are rights and lefts, and for the purposes of this description corresponding parts in each are denoted by the same reference characters. The brackets consist of a body portion 1 0, having the sockets 1 1 for the bearings of the shaderoller and with one end of each bent laterally, as at 12, and provided with a longitudinal slot 13 to receive the holding-screws 14, by which the same are secured to the window-casing. Attached to each bracket is a wire loop 15 for supporting the draperypole, (indicated by dotted lines at 16.) The free ends of the body portions 10 of the brackets are bent laterally into return-bends 17, forming sockets at right angles to the longitudinal plane of the brackets, and with clamp-screws 18, operating through the bends and extending transversely of the sockets. Swinging upon the clamp-screws byeyes 1 9 in their upper ends are rods 20, having horizontal drapery-receiving loops 21 in their free ends, the terminals of the receiving-loops having eyes 22 to prevent tearing the drapery material. The body portions of the rods 20 are connected to the horizontal loops 21 by diagonal braces 23, the latter having lateral loops or eyes 24 bent therein to support photographs, bouquets, or other ornaments, as may be desired, the brace members thus acting in a two-fold capacity of supports between the rods and their receiving-loops and a support for the ornament-holding eyes 24.

With a device thus constructed the draperies and shades may be supported independently and the draperies inserted into the loops 21, which will hold them looped laterally to any required extent, as the rods 20 may be set at any required incline b means of the clamp-screws 18. Thus the draperies may be separated to any required extent, or permitted to hang vertically, or sustained in a widely-separated position when the floors are being swept to avoid soiling the draperies.

The device is very simple in construction, may be adjusted to fit any size of window, and may be as highly ornamented as desired.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is 1. In a device of the class described, bracket members for attachment to the window having means for supporting a draperypole, and laterally-adjustable rods supported by the brackets and terminating in draperyreceiving loops.

2. In a device of the class described, bracket members for attachment to the window having means for supporting a draperypole and terminating in vertical sockets provided with clamp-screws, and rods having eyes in one end for swinging upon said screws and with drapery-receiving loops at their free ends.

3. In a device of the class described, bracket members for attachment to the window having means for supporting a draperypole and rods swinging from said brackets and bent into horizontal drapery-receiving loops at their free ends and with the loops connected by diagonal braces to the bodies of the rods, said braces having intermediate ornament-holding eyes.

4. In a device of the class described, bracket members for attachment to a Window and having means for supporting a drapery-pole, the free ends of said brackets having return-bends at right an les to the longitudinal plane of the same, clamp-screws operating through said return bends, and

swing-rods having eyes engaging said screws within said bends and provided with draperyreceiving loops at their free ends.

5. In a device of the class described, bracket members for attachment to the window and having wire loops for detachably supporting a drapery pole, rods having a swinging connection with the free ends of said brackets and having drapery-receiving loops in their free ends, and means combined with the brackets for holding the rods at any desired angle of adjustment.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES M SPENCER.

Witnesses: J. L. WILLOUGHBY, ANDREW G. SHARP. 

